If You Don't Know What Cube Toast Is, You're Missing Out

In less than five minutes, Gloria Chin (the brains behind Boston's Double Chin HK Cafe) has already spewed all the buzzwords you'd expect of a 25-year-old restaurant runner.

Emoji: She wants you to look like this one when you taste the food 😮 .

Insta-worthy: As in, her entire menu.

Sustainability: Chin is a big fan, which is why the leftovers from her family's bakery next door are her favorite ingredients.

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Rebranded: It's what she did when Double Chin expanded.

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But Chin's best phrase is the one she says in reference to her restaurant's star dish: "It's like a Scorpion Bowl — but rated G." She's referring to Double Chin's cube toast, a carved-out hunk of brioche that's turned into French toast, then filled with even more tiny pieces of French toast and a kitchen sink-esque sweep of other ingredients. Chin's description is a bit of a reach (don't expect to get drunk from her dessert), but it's not completely off-base. Just like the massive shared cocktail, the cube toast is best enjoyed post 'gram and with a big group of friends.

The idea stemmed from Chin's love of her family's loaves of brioche. They're a staple at their bakery, and — as it turns out — the perfect vessel for an outrageous dessert. In Asia, there's something called honey toast, and it's made the same way, with the middle cut out, diced up, and put back inside. "It's super popular, but it's smaller," Chin says. "I wanted something over-the-top, with different textures, and temperatures, and flavors."

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You can get just that four different ways at Double Chin, and trust — they're big. "I've never seen anyone finish one alone," Chin laughs. "Even with two people, it doesn't happen that often." Maybe that's because the dessert is hiding so much more food than what you see at first glance. The Muddy Madness was Chin's first version, and it's got the French toast base with all of the cubes stuffed back inside, plus three scoops of chocolate ice cream, Frosted Flakes, strawberries, peaches, mochi, chocolate syrup, condensed milk, M&M'S, and Pocky sticks.

The whole thing is surprisingly pretty for all it's got going on, but would you expect anything less from Chin? She's not shy to admit it: "I was going for that wow factor … for Instagram!"